Students are challenged to work together as a class to create a communal map of their ideal city. To support this, students engage in a number of visual arts activities being asked to draw themselves, their favorite places, and their desired workplaces. During this exercise, students recognize their own motivation, goals, and self-image, make links between well-being and the physical environment, and develop a vision of what would help to achieve a fulfilling life. They listen to the opinions of their peers, and they help each other to express more accurate and clearer goals to create their collective vision of the ideal city. 

•  Use visual arts techniques to create drawings and communicate plans

• Develop an understanding of what is needed to live healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible, and balanced lives

• Develop knowledge of urban environments, city planning, and sustainability

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Play with unusual and radical design ideas and question conventions in architectural design

• Create, appraise, and consider several perspectives on visual art that show expressive qualities

Web and print

• Pictures of an open-air museum and traditional architecture on ICT

• Pictures of modern houses, buildings, and constructions on ICT

Other Resources

• Small and large boxes, glue, medical sticks

• Cotton wool, tempera paints, cups, and various waste materials

Opportunities to adapt, extend, and enrich

• Students could be asked to create a house of the future as a follow-up activity

• Further links could be made with local history by going on an architectural tour of the local area

• An architect or equivalent expert could be invited to speak to the students

• Further activities from the OECD CERI project Fostering and assessing creativity and critical thinking skills over the use of mathematics in the design of buildings and architectural plans include Mathematics for a new Taj Mahal and The Math-Mystery of the Egyptian Pyramids

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lSP0gTi_QWoFs45JSim2qyMDrhJr_xBPrydDKdgTCLo/edit?usp=sharing

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w7iwvCAFtlvF0eoSoDDIy65yGDx65HdbPZPzdXpj6Qw/edit?usp=sharing

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/106HvBaTsREfJAGkyFMrgwg8dTN_DhpuxTUciOekIZy4/edit?usp=sharing

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bDmTpP74PSLuI_7HV_CoRpICtkuqvt6-zdlwIc4i3SQ/edit?usp=drive_link